Word: except
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...hero this time is Adam Munro, a British spy working under cover in his nation's embassy in Moscow. Pretty straight arrow this Munro, all the right schools, the right background, except for a short, passionate fling with a Russian beauty during the Berlin crisis. But she "slipped back into the East through the last uncompleted section in the Wall, sad and lonely and heartbroken--and very, very, beautiful." Never to be seen again. Suuuuure...
...have one company pointing the way. It is not a big company, it is not very well known, and there is really nothing special about it, except for its democratic work organization and its profitability...
...former Harvard President Nathan Pusey at his side, Secretary of Defense Rizzo orders a B-52 strike on Harvard Yard. "Now you can finally park you car in Harvard Yard," Rizzo says. Bok condemns "unwarranted interference with out internal affairs," demands U.N. sanctions against all of the United States, except New England...
...cagers picked up where they left off when the second half started, except now they weren't rebounding either. Mannix's hot hands and the continued mediocrity of the Bruins kept Harvard within...
...story of three elderly men who rob a bank, Director-Writer Brest (Hot Tomorrows) apparently meant to make a poignant statement about the loneliness and financial indignities that can grip old people. The subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic life. Except for the funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going in Style has only dull, homely sequences that alternately patronize and sentimentalize the aged. The mordant humor of Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? and the fiery compassion of Paul Mazursky's Harry and Tonto...